Bloom, Harold, 310
Blücher, Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von, 275
Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich, 9, 30
Bogue, David, 314
Bolívar, Simón, 231
Book of Job: illustrated by Blake, 311, 316, 325
Boswell, James: as biographer, 47; and Zélide (Isabelle de Tuylle), 140, 142, 144, 147; visits Rousseau, 164; Life of Johnson, 52, 54–5, 57, 65–6
Bougainville, Antoine de, 29
Boyle, Robert, 114, 125
brain (human), 79–80, 89–91
Brawne, Fanny: letters to Keats, 221; Andrew Motion invokes, 225; love affair with Keats, 226–7, 233–5; on Keats’s power to attract, 228; Keats’s letters to, 236; moves to Hampstead Heath, 239; flirts with Charles Brown, 240; later marriage, 240; mourns Keats, 240
Brent, Charlotte, 102, 107
Brewster, Sir David, 201–2, 311; Life, Writings and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton, 58
Bright Star (Jane Campion; film), 226
Bristol Pneumatic Institute, 15
British Association for the Advancement of Science, 23
Bronowski, Jacob, 309
Brontë, Charlotte, 55, 57; Villette, 57
Brontë sisters, 116
Brown, Carlino (Charles’s son), 241
Brown, Charles Armitage: friendship with Keats, 224, 226–7, 230–1, 237–9; character and background, 237; fails to write Keats’s biography, 240; later life, 240; Narensky (comic opera), 237; Otho the Great (play, with Keats), 239
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 60, 167, 212
Browning, Robert, 212, 331
Bruder, Helen, 310
Buchan, John: The Thirty-Nine Steps, 90
Buck, Linda, 89
Buckley, Arabella, 208
Burke, Edmund: ‘A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful’, 24
Burney, Fanny, 116, 149, 157, 185, 266; The Wanderer, 185
Burns, Robert, 232
Burrows, Johnnie (Anne Gilchrist’s brother), 322
Butts, Thomas, 328, 330–1, 334
Byatt, A.S.: Possession, 59
Byerley, Katharine, 296
Byron, Anne Isabelle, Lady, 116, 208
Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron: and science, 23, 27, 36; on Newton’s apple, 26–7; biographies of, 57; Thomas Moore on, 57; view of Mme de Staël, 155, 165–6; posthumous fame, 222; death at Missolonghi, 246; and Shelley’s death, 248; sailing with Shelley, 250; effect on Shelley, 253; finances Leigh Hunt, 254; in Mary Shelley’s writings, 256; style, 269; meets Lady Blessington, 277; and Lawrence portrait of Charles Lambton, 278; on Coleridge, 286; Don Juan, 36; ‘Sonnet to Lake Leman’, 166; ‘Vision of Judgement’, 254
Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 253
Calne, Wiltshire, 11
Campbell, Clarissa: Wollstonecraft’s Daughters, 192
Campion, Jane, 226–7
Canning, George: Lawrence portrait of, 276; ‘The Vision of Liberty’ (satirical poem), 184
Carlyle, Jane Welsh, 315
Carlyle, Thomas: and Gilchrist, 314–15, 321, 335; praises Gilchrist’s Blake, 331; Anne Gilchrist plans life of, 338; Life of Frederick the Great, 315
Caro, Robert: Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power, 64–5
Caroline, Queen of George IV, 272
Cavalier, Jean, 76
Cavendish, Sir Charles, 118, 120–1
Cavendish, Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle (née Lucas): burial in Westminster Abbey, 13, 216; background, 116–17; soubriquet (‘Mad Madge’), 116, 132; marriage, 117–20; character, 118, 131; letters, 118–20; dress, 120–1, 125–6, 132; in Holland, 121; attends Royal Society meetings, 125–7; satirises Royal Society, 127–8, 130; on Nature, 129–30; notoriety, 207; opposes vivisection, 210; The Blazing World, 127–9; ‘The Hunting of the Hare’, 129–30; The Life of William Cavendish, 131; Observations on Experimental Philosophy, 131; Philosophical Letters, 129; Playes, 129; Poems and Fancies, 121–5, 127, 129; A True Relation of my Birth, Breeding and Life, 131
Cévennes, France, 6–7, 73–5
Chalmers, Alexander, 185
Chantrey, Sir Francis, 207–8, 216
Charles, Archduke of Austria, 275
Charles, Jacques-Alexandre, 97
Charlotte, Queen of George III, 268
Charlotte Dundas (steamship), 28
Charrière, Charles de, 141, 144, 147, 149
Charrière, Isabelle de see Tuyll, Isabelle de
Chastenay, Madame de, 160
chemistry, 29
Chevalier, Tracy, 310
Children of Albion: Poetry of the Underground in Britain (anthology), 308
chronometer, 27
Civil War (English), 117
Clapton, Eric, 167
Clarke, Charles Cowden, 224
Clarke, Marisse, 77–8; Wash Day and Bath Night (dissertation), 78
Clerk Maxwell, James, 201, 206
Coleridge, Hartley, 8, 298
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: biography, 7; notebooks, 8, 297; travels, 9–10, 13, 30; in Malta, 10, 293; moon- and sun-worship, 10; opium addiction, 11, 14, 102, 283, 289, 293, 296; friendship with Davy, 13, 15–16, 21, 290, 293–4, 303; infatuation with Sara Hutchinson, 13–15; experiments with Humphry Davy, 15–16; and science, 21, 23–4, 105, 290, 303; on biography, 52; on memory, Associationism and forgetfulness, 81–4, 86, 92–3; balloon flight, 99–107; Poe admires, 100–1; Allston portrait (1814), 102–3; quarrel with Wordsworth, 103; and Mary Robinson, 193; Keats meets, 225, 230; lectures at Royal Institution, 281–5, 294–7, 300–4; walking, 281; poetic principles, 286–7; portrait (1799), 286; studies in Germany, 287–8; attends Davy’s Royal Institution lectures, 291–2; on Imagination, 293, 297–300; aesthetic theory, 297–8; on Education, 300–1; career as public lecturer, 302; reads Blake in manuscript, 310; The Ancient Mariner, 9, 100, 286, 301; ‘An Angel Visitant’, 15; Biographia Literaria, 11, 83, 86, 105, 164, 299–300, 302; ‘Dejection: an Ode’, 13; ‘The Eolian Harp’, 295; ‘Frost at Midnight’, 11, 82–3, 286; ‘Kubla Khan’, 8, 12, 15, 93, 99, 103, 226, 286, 289, 293; Lyrical Ballads (with Wordsworth), 190; Notebooks, 82; ‘Religious Musings’, 81–2; Shakespeare Criticism, 302; ‘Sonnet to the River Otter’, 11; The Theory of Life, 302; ‘To a Young Ass’, 286; ‘A Tombless Epitaph’, 12
‘Coleridge Among the Scientists’ (RH; lecture), 21
consciousness (human), 79–80
Constable, John, 106
Constant, Benjamin: relations with Madame de Staël, 141, 156, 161–2, 167; relations with Zélide, 141–4, 146, 151; Geoffrey Scott identifies with, 147; on Mme de Staël’s Corinne, 162; Adolphe, 141, 145, 165; Cahier Rouge, 161
Cook, Captain James, 22, 29, 37
‘Corinna, Corinna’ (blues song), 167
Cornwall, Barry, 234
cosmology: developments, 28, 41–2; Shelley on, 39; see also Herschel, William
Cottle, Joseph, 286
Courier (newspaper), 246
Cox, Jane, 234
Creation myth, 43
Creationism, 215
Crick, Francis: The Astonishing Hypothesis, 79
Croker, Rosamund, 276
Cromek, Robert Hartley, 334
Cunningham, Alan: Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters, 311
Curie, Marie, 114
Cusk, Rachel: Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation, 192
Cutting, Lady Sybil (later Scott), 145–7
Cuvier, Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert, Baron, 22
Dalton, John, 29
Dante Alighieri: Inferno, 311
Darwin, Charles, 21–2, 31, 214–15, 303; On the Origin of Species, 200, 323
Darwin, Erasmus, 23, 28, 42, 288, 302
Davy, Sir Humphry: relations with Coleridge, 13, 15–16, 21, 294, 303; as scientist, 23; and early anaesthesia, 29, 32, 289; Mayhew on, 33; as subject of biography, 35; influence on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, 43; and Associationism, 84; painted by Thomas Lawrence, 267; statu
s and fame, 267; lectures and demonstrates at Royal Institution, 281, 291–2, 297; invites Coleridge to lecture, 283, 285, 293, 295, 302–4; influenced by German Romantic science, 288; poetry, 290, 295; delivers Second Bakerian Lecture at Royal Society, 293–4; writes to Coleridge on imagination, 293; calorific experiments, 298; Salmonia, or Days of Fly-Fishing, 84
Dawkins, Richard, 39; Unweaving the Rainbow, 225
Defoe, Daniel: on Jack Sheppard, 52; fictional women, 186
de Morgan, August, 116
Denman, Maria, 317
De Quincey, Thomas, 296–7
Descartes, René, 121
Devonshire, Georgiana Duchess of, 266, 272
Dickens, Charles: and Ellen Ternan, 58; The Mudfog Papers, 199
Digby, Sir Kenelm, 68, 120
Domenichino: Cumaean Sybil (painting), 159
Don Juan (boat), 246, 250–3, 257
Dowden, Edward: life of Shelley, 59
Dr Johnson & Mr Savage (RH), 60
dreams, 80
Dryden, John, 50
Dylan, Bob, 167
East Anglia, University of, 61
Eclectic Review, 313
Edel, Leon: Writing Lives: Principia Biographica, 54
Edgeworth, Maria, 205; Belinda, 185
Edinburgh Review, 202, 205
education: Coleridge on, 300–1
Eliot, George, 116, 162, 192; The Mill on the Floss, 203–4
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 163
Endeavour, HMS, 30
Erdmann, David: Prophet Against Empire, 310
Etty, William, 313–14, 318
European Magazine, 180
Evans, Mary Ann see Eliot, George
Evelyn, John, 114, 126
evolution theory: Mary Somerville accepts, 214–15; Coleridge on, 302
exploration (geographic), 29–30
Fairfax, Vice-Admiral William, 203
Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air (RH), 99
Faraday, Michael, 23, 201, 205, 207
Farington, Joseph, 270, 273
Farren, Elizabeth, 269
Felix Farley’s Bristol Journal, 102
Felpham, Sussex, 317, 329, 337
Fenwick, Elizabeth, 173–4
Ferry, Georgina, 115
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 164
Finch, Francis Oliver, 317
fish: and memory, 84
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 225
Flaxman, John, 318, 331, 335
Footsteps (RH), 5–6
Ford, E. Onslow, 248
forgetting, 73, 75, 80, 85–6, 91–3
Forster, Johann and Georg, 29
Forster, John: life of Dickens, 58; popular biographies, 318; Oliver Goldsmith, 314
Fournier, Louis: The Cremation of Shelley (painting), 248
Frankenstein, Victor (fictional figure), 21–2
Franklin, Sir John, 30, 206
French Revolution: Thomas Lawrence and, 269
Friend, The (journal), 52, 303
Froude, James Anthony: Life of Thomas Carlyle, 56, 337
Fry, Elizabeth, 192
Frye, Northrop: Fearful Symmetry, 308, 310
Fuller, Margaret, 163, 192
Funnell, Peter, 265
Fuseli, Henry, 176, 178–9, 188, 335
Gardon, river (France; les Gardons), 73–4, 76–7
Gaskell, Elizabeth, 318; Charlotte Brontë, 55, 57, 315
Gassendi, Pierre, 120, 122
Gautier, Théophile, 277
Gay-Lussac, Joseph Louis, 205–6
Gélieu, Isabelle de, 149
General Biographical Dictionary, The, 185
Genesis, Book of, 43
Gentleman’s Magazine, 171
George III, King, 267
George IV, King (earlier Prince Regent), 274–5
Germany: intellectual influence on Coleridge, 287–8
Gigante, Denise: The Keats Brothers, 228
Gilchrist, Alexander: researches and writes on Blake, 310, 312–18, 320, 326, 328, 330–1, 334–5, 339; ill health, 319; death, 321; quality of writing, 332–3; Life of Blake, 318, 330
Gilchrist, Anne (née Burrows; Alexander’s wife): marriage and children, 314, 319; walks with Alexander, 315; collects Blake watercolours, 317; acts as Alexander’s amanuensis, 319–20; background and career, 321–3; and Alexander’s death, 323–4; writings, 323, 338; completes and edits Alexander’s life of Blake, 324–31, 334, 336–9; in America writing on Whitman, 336; revises Blake biography, 336; cancer and death, 338; death of daughter Beatrice, 338; writes Blake entry for Dictionary of National Biography, 338; ‘Lost in the Woods’ (children’s story), 322
Gilchrist, Beatrice (Alexander’s daughter), 320–1; death, 338
Gillray, James, 182
Ginsberg, Allen, 308
Gittings, Robert, 227, 232–4, 236–7
Godet, Philippe: Madame de Charrière et ses Amis, 142–3, 146, 151
Godwin, William: writes life of Mary Wollstonecraft, 52, 55, 62–4, 175–82, 186–91; devastated by Mary’s death, 173; views and beliefs, 173; edits Mary’s Posthumous Works, 175, 182; attacked and criticised, 182–4, 186; first meets Mary, 188; biography of, 194; death, 195; Thomas Lawrence drawing of, 268–9; criticises Humphry Davy’s scientific work, 290–1; Caleb Williams, 173; An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, 173, 176; Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Women, 52, 55, 62–4, 179–80, 183, 186, 190, 196
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 30, 253; Faust, 9, 255; The Sorrows of Young Werther, 53, 178, 187
Gooden, Angelica, 167
Gordon, Lyndall, 62
Gosse, Sir Edmund: Father and Son, 59
Göttingen, Germany, 9
Graham, Mrs (earth scientist), 206
Graham, Sheilah: College of One, 225
Grahame, Kenneth: The Wind in the Willows, 89
gravity, 200
Gray, Francine du Plessix, 167
Greek War of Independence, 254
Green, Charles, 100, 102
Green, Joseph Henry, 303
Greenfield, Susan: The Human Brain: A Guided Tour, 89, 91, 92
Greer, Germaine, 310; The Boy, 248
Greig, Samuel, 204
Greig, Woronzow (Mary Somerville’s son), 204–5, 210, 213
Greta Hall, Keswick, 13–14
Guiccioli, Countess Teresa, 163, 277
Gunn, Thom: ‘Keats at Highgate’, 225
Halley, Edmund, 114
Hambling, Maggi, 115
Hamilton, Emma, Lady, 53
Hamilton, Ian: Keepers of the Flame, 59
Hamilton, Mary, 267–8
Hardy, Henriette l’, 149
Hardy, Thomas: Two on a Tower, 34
Harrison, Thomas, 27
Hartley, David: Observations on Man, His Frame, His Duty and His Expectations, 79–82, 89, 91, 93
Harvey, William, 128
Hawkins, Frances, 276
Haydn, Joseph, 38, 41–2; The Creation (oratorio), 40–1, 43
Haydon, Benjamin Robert, 231, 264
Hayley, William, 329, 336
Hays, Mary, 172, 183–4; Dictionary of Female Biography, 184
Hazlitt, William: on Coleridge’s ballooning, 101; on Godwin, 186; and Keats, 231; writing for Leigh Hunt, 254; on Lawrence’s portrait of Prince Regent, 275; ‘My First Acquaintance with Poets’, 255; The Spirit of the Age, 57
Héger, Constantin, 57
Heine, Heinrich, 159
Hemans, Felicia, 163
Henrietta-Maria, Queen of Charles I, 117, 120–1
Henry, Joseph, 202, 206
Hermenches, Chevalier Constant d’: Zélide’s correspondence with, 135–9, 143; Geoffrey Scott identifies with, 147
Herold, J. Christopher: Mistress to an Age, 160–1
Herschel, Caroline: and science, 16, 23, 35, 37–8, 41–2; astronomical discoveries, 113, 210; scientific writings, 114–15; made Honorary Fellow of Royal Astronomical Society, 115
Herschel, Sir John, 211; A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natu
ral Philosophy, 29
Herschel, William: cosmological studies and discoveries, 23, 28, 32, 35, 37–43; and sister Caroline, 114; letter to Whewell on need for science books, 199; and Mary Somerville, 205–7
Historical Magazine, 180
Hitchcock, Alfred, 90
Hitler, Adolf, 57
Hobbes, Thomas, 79, 120
Hodgkin, Dorothy, 115
Hogg, Thomas Jefferson: life of Shelley, 59
Holcroft, Thomas, 173, 268–9
Holmes, Richard: in France, 6–7, 73–6; lectures at Royal Society, 35; teaches biographical studies, 48–9, 61–9; goes ballooning, 97–8; lectures at Harvard, 103; in Rome, 221; on Shelley’s drowning, 245; lectures on Romantic lecturing, 281
Holroyd, Michael, 47, 56
Hooke, Robert, 114, 125; Micrographia, 128
Hoppner, John, 274
Horace (Horatius Flaccus), 48
Howard, Luke: On the Moderation of Clouds, 106
Hugues, M. (farmer), 65
Humboldt, Alexander von, 30, 202, 206, 210; Cosmos, 210; Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent, 30–1
Hume, David: Treatise on Human Nature, 79
Hunt, James Leigh, 224, 231, 240, 251, 254, 258
Hutchinson, Sara (‘Asra’): in Coleridge’s Notebook, 8, 82; Coleridge’s love for, 13–15, 103; Coleridge’s poem to, 13
Hutton, James, 43
Huxley, Thomas Henry, 115
Huygens, Constantijn, 121
Hypatia of Alexandria, 113
imagination: Coleridge and, 293, 297–300
Imlay, Fanny (Mary Wollstonecraft’s daughter), 175, 188
Imlay, Gilbert, 63, 175–6, 178, 181, 188, 193
Jacobs, Diane, 62
Jasinski, Béatrice, 158
Jefferson, Thomas, 156
Jeffries, John, 43, 97
Jerningham, Edward, 284, 296–7
Job see Book of Job
Johnson, Joseph, 63, 174–5, 178–9, 181, 183–4, 188
Johnson, Robert, 167
Johnson, Samuel: Boswell’s life of, 52; biographical writings, 57; lives of, 57; on stage illusion, 298; Life of Mr. Richard Savage, 52, 65; Lives of the Poets, 55; ‘On Biography’, 51
Jones, Isabella, 234–5
Jones, Louisa, 175
Juniper Hall, Surrey, 157
Kant, Immanuel, 164
Keats, Frances (John’s mother), 227
Keats, George (John’s brother), 228–30
Keats, John: and science, 23, 38, 39; death in Rome, 221–2, 246; posthumous resonance and influence, 222–6, 241; imaginative powers, 223–4; friendship with Charles Brown, 224, 226–7, 230–1, 237–9; meets Coleridge, 225, 230; love affair with Fanny Brawne, 226–7, 233–5; biographies, 227–30, 237, 241; on brother George, 229; black eye playing cricket, 230; career, 231; circle of friends, 231; tour of Scottish Highlands, 231–2; and brother Tom’s death, 232; tuberculosis, 233, 239; and women, 233–5; letters to Fanny Brawne, 236; described by Charles Brown, 238; on ‘Negative Capability’, 299; ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’, 236, 229; ‘Bright Star’, 234, 235; ‘The Day is Gone’, 235; Endymion, 236, 231; ‘The Eve of St Agnes’, 226, 234, 237; ‘The Eve of St Mark’, 234; Hyperion, 230, 232, 236; ‘The Jealousies, or the Cap and Bells’, 233; Lamia, 235; ‘Ode to a Nightingale’, 224; ‘On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer’, 39–40; Otho the Great (play, with Brown), 239; Poems (1817), 231; ‘To Autumn’, 223, 226; ‘To Psyche’, 230